We previously developed a mathematical model, the Hospital Universitario La Fe (HULF) index, as an alternative to protocol liver biopsy (PLB) to estimate significant fibrosis (SF) in patients who underwent liver transplantation (LT) for liver damage caused by chronic HCV infection. In the present st
Prediction of fibrosis in HCV-infected liver transplant recipients with a simple noninvasive index
✍ Scribed by Salvador Benlloch; Marina Berenguer; Martín Prieto; José Miguel Rayón; Victoria Aguilera; Joaquín Berenguer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.20381
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